Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...address them in their hall. Chief of Police Tracey vetoed the invitation, closed the hall. Undaunted, Mr. Baldwin-whose headquarters are the American Civil Liberties Union, Manhattan-came to town, marched with speechless strikers to the City Hall. "Go for 'em! Break 'em up!" cried a lusty policeman. "I am reading the Bill of Rights"* was all a striker could utter before a police sergeant shoved him from his perch on the top step and recited the Riot...
Dazed, he looks for an old landmark. What? No "Pill Box"? Only a traffic policeman marks the spot. With filmed eye and tottering limb, he makes for him. But rashly, for the released traffic leaps forth. Down goes the stranger. The officer's arms gyrate madly. A snort of disgust--"Top slow...
...Come along with me," ordered the policeman...
...policeman frowned. "Who are you?" he demanded...
...dead tired, to his house from the Diet, five men called, demanded to see the Premier. A secretary appeared, told the visitors that the Premier was tired, too tired to see them. Whereupon the five men fell upon the secretary. Servants in the offing joined in the fight. A policeman rushed in; another rushed to a telephone. A few minutes later, arrived 20 more bobbies. The fight promptly ended. The five men were taken to the nearest police station, examined, proved to be agitators employed by reactionaries to coerce the Premier into abandoning the Universal Manhood Suffrage Bill...